Microsoft Flow is a cloud-based software that allows employees to create and automate workflows and tasks across multiple applications and services. These flows allow the IT organization to provide tools and a platform to end users allowing them to automate their workload. In this talk we will talk about the benefits of using flow. Delve deeper into what flow is, and how to use it. We will also talk about some common scenarios in most organizations.

Speaker: Russell Patrick

Russell Patrick is a Senior Consultant at HMB a technology solutions company in Louisville, Kentucky. Working in SharePoint for five years in three different capacities, Russell can answer almost everything on the topic. He is a co-organizer for the Louisville SharePoint Users Group and an active member of the Louisville Microsoft Users Group. Russell wishes to one day bring SharePoint Saturdays back to the Ville.

There is plenty of guidance for getting started using Microsoft Teams, but how should administrators prepare for a successful rollout? What if you’ve already started using Teams and are realizing the administrative needs? Without proper preparation and understanding, Teams (and Office 365 Groups) can become the wild west and leave you wondering how to dig out of a mess. This session will explore a variety of administration and governance topics that will lead you on the path to a healthy environment and prevent things from getting out of control.

Speaker: Jeremy Miller

Jeremy is an Enterprise Architect and Microsoft MVP focused on designing secure and scalable solutions. He has a broad background in designing and supporting both cloud and on-premises systems. Jeremy’s past experiences include working with Microsoft technologies in complex environments ranging from hospitality to EDU to multi-national manufacturing companies ranging from 300 – 750,000 users. In his downtime he enjoys cheering on the Kentucky Wildcats, trying new beers, eating great food, and experiencing new adventures. You can find him on Twitter @millh0use or on his blog at https://itspartlycloudy.com.

Ashley McKenzie, a Senior Account Executive at Adobe Systems, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio will be joining CKYMUG to discuss the topic of diversity in Information Technology including what Adobe is doing to create a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Speaker:

Ashley McKenzie, Adobe Systems Inc

Ashley McKenzie is a Senior Account Executive at Adobe Systems, Inc., and a strong supporter of women & diversity in technology. She previously spent six and a half years working as a Client Representative at IBM. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Strategic Communications from the University of Kentucky, and her Master’s degree in Business Informatics from Northern Kentucky University. Ashley has also been a “Big Sister” in Big Brother/Big Sisters of the Bluegrass for over 11 years, and advocates for more “Big Sisters” to become part of the program. She lives in Walton, Kentucky with her husband Sheldon, her three daughters, Izzy, Mia, and Laila, and her dog Dobby.

PowerShell has been around in some form since 2005, but it was only with SharePoint Server 2010 that PowerShell became an official part of the SharePoint administrative landscape. Nowadays, PowerShell is the preferred mechanism for administrative management of SharePoint farms, both on-premises and in the cloud with SharePoint Online. In this session, we’ll be taking a more advanced look at PowerShell and how it can be used to execute and script administrative actions for SharePoint. We’ll look at some common SharePoint activities that are carried-out through PowerShell, as well as some of the newer PowerShell capabilities like desired state configuration (DSC). We’ll also look at some PowerShell watch-outs including some behaviors that can sometimes cause trouble with SharePoint. Administrators and developers alike will leave this session with a variety of concepts and script samples that can be used to immediately improve operations within their own SharePoint environments.

Highlights

A review of baseline PowerShell operations, concepts, and SharePoint cmdlets

A look at advanced PowerShell capabilities (like DSC) and how they can be leveraged

Numerous script samples that can be adapted for use in most SharePoint environments

Speaker:

Sean McDonough, CTO Bitstream Foundry

Sean is the Chief Technology Officer for Bitstream Foundry, a Cincinnati-based provider of SharePoint solutions, services, and consulting. Microsoft certified MCP, MCTS, and MCPD, Sean has over two decades of experience developing software, building infrastructures, and solving technical problems. Unable to take anything except the deep dive into any role, Sean has acquired a diverse and expansive skill set as consultant, product manager, solution architect, team lead, administrator, and platform evangelist through the years. Some might label his passion for all things tech related as borderline ‘obsession’, but it is equal only to his desire to share those discoveries and experiences with others as author, blogger, and frequent speaker/instructor at technical conferences, user groups, and similar events all over North America. Sean is also a Microsoft MVP. He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or on Twitter (@spmcdonough)

Microsoft’s biggest community event of the year, Ignite, kicks off at the end of September. The event will include over 700 deep-dive sessions, 100+ workshops, and thousands of networking opportunities. Join us as Jeremy Miller and Matt Varney lead a panel discussion of some the biggest announcements and takeaways from the week so you can prepare your company for what’s next from the Microsoft world!

Speakers:

Jeremy Miller, Enterprise Architect KCTCS

Jeremy is an Enterprise Architect focused on designing secure and scalable solutions. He has a broad background in designing and supporting both cloud and on-premises systems. Jeremy’s past experiences include working with Microsoft technologies in complex environments ranging from SMB hospitality to EDU to multi-national manufacturing companies. In his downtime he enjoys cheering on the Kentucky Wildcats, trying new beers, eating great food, and experiencing new adventures.

Matt Varney, Intranet Administrator KCTCS

Matt Varney is a technology architect specializing in enterprise IT strategy and solutions. Matt is the Intranet Administrator for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and its 8,000 employees. His 18 years of technology experience has made him an expert in both the technical and organizational aspects of IT. He likes nuts-and-bolts work like SharePoint farm and Office 365 administration, but he also enjoys creating the business process and people conditions necessary for effective implementations. With an emphasis on the big picture, Matt is at his best when working with employee groups and teams, helping them find hidden value in the processes and digital artifacts they thought they knew. On a personal note, he’s a fan of fine bourbon, winning basketball and horse racing.

Have you heard the news? Microsoft Teams is now available for free with no subscription required! Come to CKYMUG in August to hear from Mirazon’s Jason Turpin about how you can make Teams work for you including:

Jason Turpin has been with Mirazon for four years, focused on Office 365 and Skype for Business implementation and support. He’s been in this field for over 20 years and graduated from Utah Valley University with a BS in business management. He holds his Microsoft Certified Professional in Lync 2013 and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in Communications and a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate in Office 365. Jason and his wife Shelly have six daughters and two sons.

How many of you know what User Profiles can do? When I typically ask that question I get responses such as: It connects to Active Directory so that properties can be synced into SharePoint so we can use that info (but not sure how), or the most popular, we can add pictures to our profile and other information that others can see. Both of those answers are true but only scratch the surface of what User Profiles can do in SharePoint and most importantly for your organization. I could talk for hours about all the great things that User Profiles can do, but, in addition to talking about it I’m going to show you all the things that a User Profile can do and how the functionality can improve meeting preparation, company bonding and getting to know more about the organization you work for. I won’t stop there either as we will also venture down the path of application integration and how it can streamline processes and limit human error in day to day processes. With the user of User Profiles you can be on your way to building that one stop shop for company information.

Areas that will be covered in this session:

Deep Dive into a Profile

Custom User Properties

Active Directory Integration

Search

Social

Building Moral & Bonding

Get to know your Company

Speaker: Stacy Deer-Strole (MVP)

Stacy Deere-Strole (MVP) is the Owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market. Previously, Stacy led a rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engaged in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With nearly 20 years of experience in the IT Industry, Stacy has mainly focused on Collaboration Solutions such as IBM’s Lotus Notes\Domino and Microsoft’s Messaging and Collaboration Solutions including deployments and SharePoint upgrades.

Within the SharePoint community, Stacy is a SharePoint MVP and is actively sharing her real world expertise through authoring in the blog http://www.spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co, and speaking at various SharePoint Saturday’s, Collab365, ITUnity, SPTechCon, SharePoint Fest, SharePoint Engage, and User Group events. She also co-authored two books called SharePoint 2013 and 2010 Using Managed Metadata.

In June we will hear from Solarity as they discuss their project management work with LFUCG on various projects, including a migrating over 1,000 machines to Windows 10. Whether you are a full time project manager, or an average IT worker, most of us will have some sort of project that needs to be completed. Join us to get some tips for completing your next big technology project!

Speaker: Bert Walther

Bert Walther, Project Manager, has had the privilege of working with many highly qualified people in the Central Kentucky business community. With their help he has gained over 20 years of technology and operations experience, including 10 years of experience in higher education IT management, and over 10 years of project management expertise. In his various roles and responsibilities, he has fostered organizational development through effective program and personnel management, and worked hard to deliver project and initiatives as designed and anticipated.

May’s session is all about utilizing PowerShell with SharePoint! PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can be utilized to automate and configure your SharePoint instance. In this talk, Russell Patrick will show the basics of PowerShell and how it relates to your SharePoint Farm.

Speaker: Russell Patrick

Russell Patrick is the key SharePoint Architect at Composable Systems, a custom software firm in Louisville, Kentucky. Working in SharePoint for five years in three different capacities, Russell can answer almost everything on the topic. He is a co-organizer for the Louisville SharePoint Users Group and an active member of the Louisville Microsoft Users Group. Russell wishes to one day bring SharePoint Saturdays back to the Ville.

Work for a business that has different locations and you have started deploying Windows 10 and have questions? Join David Baldwin from 1E for a tour of your options for getting Win10 deployed and keeping it current. We’ll talk through Modern Management, Co-Management and Traditional management techniques as well as a deeper dive into OSD with SCCM and how to get the most from OSD with a data-driven task sequence. We’ll finish with a walk-through of 1E’s Windows Servicing Suite (WSS) and what it can do for your organization.

Speaker: David Baldwin

David Baldwin is a Senior Solutions Engineer with 1E and been with the company for the past three years. He started managing 400 desktops and laptops with the predecessor to SCCM (ConfigMgr), SMS in 1998. He’s worked for small and large companies over the years always managing desktops and/or the ConfigMgr infrastructure itself. He has also worked for several Midwest consulting companies doing both CM architectures as well as running Windows XP, 7, 8.1 and 10 migrations for companies small and medium. He hails from Central Ohio where he and his wife operate a small farm. David can be reached at David.baldwin@1e.com or @davidwbaldwin on Twitter.